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I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

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Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.

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Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

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Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . .

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It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

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Nothing really known can continue to be acutely fascinating.

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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

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If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

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Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

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Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.

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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

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Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.

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Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers.

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As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.

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The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

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And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.

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Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

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Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.

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